Summer Transfer Window 2017

[Seanjd]

Not sure what you mean by that mate. Are you saying that they/we weren't prepared to put any bids in until we new that the Barkley deal was going through?

Basically, yeah. I think in terms of net spend, the budget had been reached.

 

[hktoffee]

I don't see your point?

We have an average team that won't get near 4th. Turning a profit on our better players won't help this, would it?

Will be 7th again. No main striker no centre-back when someone like Martin Indi costed £7m.

 

[nsno-chris]

I don't see your point?

We have an average team that won't get near 4th. Turning a profit on our better players won't help this, would it?

We don't have an average team one bit, we have a good squad that now gives us options and the ability to rotate certain positions.

And unless your Utd or one of City or PSG, every club operates on player trading. Even Chelsea have a model in place to increase revenues to fund transfers. Nobody wants to see their best players go, but that's football and always has been

 

[bring the ghost on]

I'd rather keep our best players and progress.

Why the he'll would a supporter be arsed if we're turning profits on players?!

I obviously don't mean indiscriminately sell our best players, but if we make a big profit on one player and can use the proceeds to buy in more quality, it's just a different means of progressing. We don't have the same level of transfer funds available as some clubs who are more cash rich than we are, so we have to have a transfer strategy which partly involves generating profits on some player sales, surely?

 

[GwladysBlue]

Will be 7th again. No main striker no centre-back when someone like Martin Indi costed £7m.

It's an absolute joke, mate.

Koeman stressed time and time again that the board know the importance of signing a forward and centre back.

Moshiri comes out and says he's happy with our business.

In for another dull season.

 

[Khalekan]

This is amazing.

The entertainment on offer in here tonight is pure comedic gold.

Thank you, Everton. [Poor language removed] you GOT.

Where would you get the like of it lol

 

[Seanjd]

Jesus Christ.

What's the point in us when we have fans like you?

Alex Ferguson era Utd won many trophies by making healthy profits on players and re-investing in quality. Loads of top teams do it.

 

[GwladysBlue]

We don't have an average team one bit, we have a good squad that now gives us options and the ability to rotate certain positions.

And unless your Utd or one of City or PSG, every club operates on player trading. Even Chelsea have a model in place to increase revenues to fund transfers. Nobody wants to see their best players go, but that's football and always has been

We won't get anywhere near the points we did last season.

Do other clubs let their best players leave and not replace them?

 

[Librarian]

If he goes to Chelsea in January, 'time for what'?

Maybe it became apparent he wasn't going to pass the medical and it was more prudent not to do it than risk the reputational damage

 

[riddick]

Because the squad has lots of holes and there are many positions which also need strengthening. If we identify someone who can offer some value and make a bid, it doesn't automatically follow that we're desperate for that particular position on the pitch.

That is true. We had a SERIOUS lack of AM's in the squad that, thankfully, has been rectified.

 

[GwladysBlue]

I obviously don't mean indiscriminately sell our best players, but if we make a big profit on one player and can use the proceeds to buy in more quality, it's just a different means of progressing. We don't have the same level of transfer funds available as some clubs who are more cash rich than we are, so we have to have a transfer strategy which partly involves generating profits on some player sales, surely?

I'd rather have kept Lukaku and just signed Keane, than signing all the players we have.

We're a worse team at the end of this window than we were at the start.

 

[PVD_Blue]

Can Bolasie play up top?

Per Transfermrkt he has 19 career appearances at CF/SS. 7 goals and 6 assists. Also think people may be writing off Sandro awfully early.

 

[Stutheblue]

Disappointing final day, but we've still brought in some guaranteed quality in Pickford, Keane, Rooney and Sigurdsson. Klassen and Sandro are both players where time will tell, but relatively optimistic for those two.

Would've liked a new No 9, but all things considered, a good window.

That new No 9 makes it a very good window. Major disappointment that for me. Plus Board new all along it was key. Failure on their part I'm afraid.

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

Pathetic

 

[Seanjd]

I'd rather have kept Lukaku and just signed Keane, than signing all the players we have.

We're a worse team at the end of this window than we were at the start.

But keeping Lukaku was an impossibility, so that's a pointless thing to say.